Isolated fetal ascites caused by Wolman disease

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 297-298

  Ben Haroush, A ^a,b   Yogev, Y ^a   Levit, O ^a   Hod, M ^a   Kaplan, B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ascites; Lipid metabolism; Storage disease; Ultrasound; Wolman disease

Indexed keywords

ACID LIPASE; LYSOSOME ENZYME;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ASCITES; FETUS HYDROPS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT DISEASE; LIPID STORAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEATORRHEA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VOMITING; WOLMAN DISEASE;

ADULT; ASCITES; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; WOLMAN DISEASE;

EID: 0037350839     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.73     Document Type: Article

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